The sand tiger shark is a cousin to the tiger shark, and one of only a few shark species that is known to purposely attack humans. With its light gray-brown back fading to white on the belly, sand tigers are found in shallow inshore waters in the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico blending into sandy bottoms. They also occur far out to sea. Although sand tigers don't sport the skin pattern associated with tiger sharks, the blunt wide head and bulky body is unmistakable. Sand tigers feed on porpoises, turtles, sea-birds, weaker sharks and all kinds of fish, including stingrays.

A bull shark or tiger shark was likely responsible for this week's deadly attack on a Stuart kiteboarder, a shark expert said Thursday. George Burgess, keeper of the International Shark Attack File at the University of Florida, examined the victim's wounds at the Medical Examiner's Office in Fort Pierce on Thursday and said the attacking shark was probably 8 to 9 feet long. Kiteboarder Stephen Howard Schafer had multiple wounds, including an 8- to 10-inch bite on his right thigh and teeth marks on his right and left buttocks, reports said.

A bull shark or tiger shark was likely responsible for this week's deadly attack on a Stuart kiteboarder, a shark expert said Thursday. George Burgess, keeper of the International Shark Attack File at the University of Florida, examined the victim's wounds at the Medical Examiner's Office in Fort Pierce on Thursday and said the attacking shark was probably 8 to 9 feet long. Kiteboarder Stephen Howard Schafer had multiple wounds, including an 8- to 10-inch bite on his right thigh and teeth marks on his right and left buttocks, reports said.

Question: I just watched a program about a young girl whose arm was bitten off by a tiger shark while she was surfing in Hawaii. She survived, but I cannot imagine how. Wouldn't someone die of shock from such a traumatic event -- especially a young person? Answer: You refer to Bethany Hamilton. In 2003, the up-and-coming amateur surfer's left arm was bitten off just below the shoulder by a 14-foot-long tiger shark. At the time she was a half-mile offshore and had to be towed in by friends.

A closely held maker of golfing equipment that uses a shark design as its logo has sued Reebok International Ltd. in federal district court here for alleged trademark infringement and unfair competition. The suit, brought by Tiger Shark Golf Inc., also lists Great White Shark Enterprises Inc., the entity from which Reebok licensed a line of golfing equipment and accessories. It seeks preliminary and permanent injunctions and unspecified damages. Kate Burnham, Reebok's director of investor relations and corporate communications, said the company ''doesn't agree with Tiger Shark's position.

Hydrofoils on boats operate on the same principle as those on airplane wings - they provide lift. With a hydrofoil, boats plane promptly without bow rise. This improves visibility, safety and fuel economy.The Tiger Shark VG hydrofoil from Tru Source Inc. is easy to install. It attaches to the cavitation plate of any outboard or stern-drive, and it can be installed with ordinary tools.The Tiger Shark VG hydrofoil retails for $54.99. Contact Tru Source Inc., 17805 Sky Park Circle, Suite A, Irvine, Calif.

Tiger sharks, perhaps the most terrifying predator cruising Florida surf, will eat nearly anything. Researchers opening tiger-shark stomachs have found cats, crabs and conchs, heads of horses, crocodiles, loggerhead turtles and an assortment of lobsters, boat cushions and woodpeckers. Yet rarely do people in Florida wind up on the menu of a tiger shark -- or any other shark. Researchers say the 400 million years of shark evolution hasn't yet left sharks with the desire to snack on people.

U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy dived into shark-filled waters to help rescue a couple whose boat overturned in a tussle with a 485-pound marlin, according to Kennedy and the skipper of his charter boat. Kennedy, on vacation with his twin 9-year-old sons, was taking part in a fishing tournament July 1 when the crew of his boat heard a distress call off the west coast of Hawaii Island. When they got to the sinking vessel, Kennedy and others on the charter jumped into the water to save the couple, said Chuck Harlan, the charter's captain.

A commercial fisherman caught a 12-foot, 900-pound tiger shark Tuesday less than 500 yards from the beach just north of Sebastian Inlet.While fishing before dawn, Alton Pettingill III and Tom Gibson discovered the shark after it became tangled in a net. The two men released the shark from the webbing without incident and then tied a rope around its tail to the boat.''He was real mellow until we tied him up,'' Pettingill said. ''He led us around for a while. . . . When he started pulling the bow down into the water, I kind of panicked a little and kept a knife real close in case I needed to cut him loose.

The room has nice balance. Pastels in the wallpaper and draperies give it an air of openness, and the warmer tones -- the teak paneling, the navy blue carpeting -- keep the space from seeming sterile and cold.There's a tan ultrasuede couch in one corner. A neatly stacked television, videocassette recorder and stereo system is tucked into a customized cabinet in the other. The place has all the elements of a nicely decorated living room -- and that, says custom designer Dawn Frederick, is exactly as it should be.''These days, you've got to design a boat interior that will look elegant for entertaining -- besides being able to hold up to bait slime and salt water and dolphin guts,'' she says.

SOUTHPORT, England -- Golf had the weirdest dream Saturday. In this dream, malevolent winds burned faces, shoved golf balls from their lies and yanked caps off heads, until all the wreckage and all the tortured shots and all the happy gorse culminated with emphatic applause on No. 18 for . . . Greg Norman? Yeah, you know those deep, senseless, REM dreams where familiar faces turn up in unfeasible places? Well, on Saturday in early evening sunshine in the dunes of Royal Birkdale, here came the third-round leader in a scene so beyond belief it's already, surely unforgettable no matter what might happen today.

Tiger sharks, perhaps the most terrifying predator cruising Florida surf, will eat nearly anything. Researchers opening tiger-shark stomachs have found cats, crabs and conchs, heads of horses, crocodiles, loggerhead turtles and an assortment of lobsters, boat cushions and woodpeckers. Yet rarely do people in Florida wind up on the menu of a tiger shark -- or any other shark. Researchers say the 400 million years of shark evolution hasn't yet left sharks with the desire to snack on people.

Grab the 3-D glasses to enjoy fully the latest wrinkle to Discovery Channel's 13th Shark Week or Shark Week Uncaged, as it is now known. Sharks 3-D, at 9 p.m. Sunday, starts the week of shark-related programming. Other specials include Giants: Sharks, Great White Down Under and Shark Attack Files II. There's also a daffy children's special, Kenny the Shark, about a tiger shark that lives with a human family. The 3-D glasses will enhance Sharks 3-D, with its scenes of the critters lunging at the camera.

The albatross that hung like a stone around the neck of the Atlantic girls basketball program is gone.Orlando Jones, through the courtesy of the state's bi-annual redistricting, is no longer around to deal out the harsh, ego-deflating routs it dumped on the Sharks over the past two years.A new season, restored confidence and the addition of an athlete who is perhaps Volusia County's top all-around performer, have the Sharks (14-6) holding firm in the Class 4A state rankings (No. 8) with just one week remaining in the regular season.

On the holiday video-game shelves, NFL quarterbacks lock horns with the knights of BugRiders while the warriors of Mortal Kombat spar with NBA slam-dunkers.For the video-game business, Christmastime also means ``Super Bowl'' time, in which various titles compete for the game player's dollar in the year's biggest sales bonanza.While Yuletide sales fuel the retail engine, video-game creators especially benefit from the shopping flood.And local companies such as n-Space Inc., a video-game developer based in Orlando, and Tiburon Entertainment Inc., a Maitland-based firm that created the wildly popular Madden's NFL Football, also expect to share in the bounty.

The sand tiger shark is a cousin to the tiger shark, and one of only a few shark species that is known to purposely attack humans. With its light gray-brown back fading to white on the belly, sand tigers are found in shallow inshore waters in the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico blending into sandy bottoms. They also occur far out to sea. Although sand tigers don't sport the skin pattern associated with tiger sharks, the blunt wide head and bulky body is unmistakable. Sand tigers feed on porpoises, turtles, sea-birds, weaker sharks and all kinds of fish, including stingrays.

Question: I just watched a program about a young girl whose arm was bitten off by a tiger shark while she was surfing in Hawaii. She survived, but I cannot imagine how. Wouldn't someone die of shock from such a traumatic event -- especially a young person? Answer: You refer to Bethany Hamilton. In 2003, the up-and-coming amateur surfer's left arm was bitten off just below the shoulder by a 14-foot-long tiger shark. At the time she was a half-mile offshore and had to be towed in by friends.

Welcome to the Space Coast's shark encounter.Sea World's is better known but tame by comparison. Here the encounters are close, sometimes too close for comfort. Experts suspect sharks bite more people along Central Florida's east coast than anywhere in the world.''We seem to be a center of activity here in Melbourne,'' said physician Donald Wagner, who treats about five shark bites a year at Holmes Regional Medical Center.The Brevard County coast has for years -- and probably eons -- served as a rest stop for sharks migrating north in the spring and south in the fall.

A closely held maker of golfing equipment that uses a shark design as its logo has sued Reebok International Ltd. in federal district court here for alleged trademark infringement and unfair competition. The suit, brought by Tiger Shark Golf Inc., also lists Great White Shark Enterprises Inc., the entity from which Reebok licensed a line of golfing equipment and accessories. It seeks preliminary and permanent injunctions and unspecified damages. Kate Burnham, Reebok's director of investor relations and corporate communications, said the company ''doesn't agree with Tiger Shark's position.

Hydrofoils on boats operate on the same principle as those on airplane wings - they provide lift. With a hydrofoil, boats plane promptly without bow rise. This improves visibility, safety and fuel economy.The Tiger Shark VG hydrofoil from Tru Source Inc. is easy to install. It attaches to the cavitation plate of any outboard or stern-drive, and it can be installed with ordinary tools.The Tiger Shark VG hydrofoil retails for $54.99. Contact Tru Source Inc., 17805 Sky Park Circle, Suite A, Irvine, Calif.